BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags

Subject: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 06:57 AM

Ok, I have been getting "Good Earth" tea bags for work. It seems that each bag has a ( different ) statement on it, obviously to make us think while we wake up.




"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."
                                  Charles A. Dana 1819 - 1897


"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."
                                  Clarence Darrow 1857 - 1938

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM

An up-to-date version of 'reading the tea leaves'?

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 12:55 PM

Celestial Seasonings has done that since they started up in 1970. They also have every side of the box filled with fun info and quotes. It was a brilliant marketing idea which has served them well.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Melissa
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 12:58 PM

I think Stash does it too.

I like Tea Wisdom almost as much as I used to like the fortunes on Bazooka comics..

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 01:06 PM

I remember an make of matches called England's Glory back in the 30s & 40s who always carried jokes or mottoes or witty quotes on the backs of their matchboxes.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 01:44 PM

I'm familiar with Celestial Seasonings (and have made the trip to Boulder) but each bag of Good Earth has a different saying ( so far).

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: open mike
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 03:49 PM

I have collected fortune cookie sayings for years.
(there is a tradition now to add the words "in bed"
after each fortune when you read it...this gets funny!

I have found that Celestial Seasonings has not had
the sayings...i think they were bought recently and
now the bags do not have tags. (Hain is the new company)

there is a dairy that includes sayings on the yogurt
lids...here are 3 that i have on my wall:
-Little acts of kindness can add up to a lifetime of happiness.
-Jumping for joy is good exercise.
-The most precious think one can make is a friend.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 06:14 PM

It was done by (I think it was) Salada as far back as the 1960s.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 06:57 PM

One of the apartments my brother lived in, in BOulder, was literally right across from CS in their very first start-up building. For 2-3 blocks you could get high just from all of the herbal aromas wafting out of there. It was really cool, plus you could go by "seconds" from them really cheap and there wasn't much wrong with them: discontinued, crushed box, etc.

I have a collection of their tins which came with purchase back in the 80s.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: mousethief
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 07:26 PM

open mike -- try it with "except in bed."

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 08:44 AM

The phrase when I was a teenager and young adult was "between the sheets". Same thing, of course.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 10:19 AM

Never noticed.
But a friend told me about an odd saying in a fortune cookie.
It said, "do you really believe you just ate chicken" :)

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 12:59 PM

One of my lifetime ambitions is to break into a fortune cookie bakery, and slip in a few things like "You will be run down by a truck as you leave the restaurant".
(Another of my dreams is to get a holiday season job at a post office, and send back Santa Clause letters, marked "Deceased").

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:51 PM

I wonder what the qualifications are to write for a fortune cookie shop? I never see any jobs advertized.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 02:21 PM

Odd teabag stuff:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkEfYohXTA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 06:11 PM

Kewl, EdT, thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: ClaireBear
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 08:03 PM

My teabag (Yogi Tea) says "Experience your own body, your own mind, and your own soul."

Now I'm worried: have I been ecperiencing someone else's, all this time, and not known it?

Oh, dear.

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: beardedbruce
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 07:04 AM

"for much wood, a little fire sufices"
    Wise saying from the Orient



"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
                           Evelyn Waugh 1903- 1966

Subject: RE: BS: witty sayings on my tea-bag tags
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 04:28 AM

Beats the hell out of 'Do not open' or 'contents liable to settle'....


LTS